Bespin Leia - My long term project

Aysel ()

I've been planning to do Bespin Leia for over a year now, gathering resources, screen shots and the general things one needs to have on hand when starting out on a project. Maggie was kind enough to send me the embroidery patterns she has, which I lined up and combined in photoshop to make one whole file. I plan to embroider this, despite the size of the project, each panel should only take me about a month to complete. My question is has anyone done a color chart for the embroidery? If so, would you be kind enough to email it to me. If not, it's fine there are some pictures that have good enough color for me to pull from.

forgot a question:
For those that have seen this costume personally, is the embroidery shinny or matte?
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Mieal Deneb (Rachel Orange) · Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 1:52 am Post subject:

I too have plans for this one, but I have 3 Padmé gowns "in line" ahead of it. Smile

Did you ask Maggie which colors she used? I thought she mentioned it on her website?

I did see the costume in person, but that was before I joined the Rebel Legion and became such a costume accuracy freak! Rolling Eyes

So, I don't remember. Sorry.
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Aysel () · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 11:44 pm Post subject:

I haven't asked Maggie which colors she used and I didn't find where (if she did) on the tips page. I've been guesstimating which colors where used by the more color saturated pics that I've found.

another question:

I have a piece of sheer white material. I'd like to know if it's sheer enough to pass for the cape, if it is I can start the embroidery now (which would be great) if not I can use it to practice on.

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Mieal Deneb (Rachel Orange) · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 9:23 pm Post subject:

It's hard to say on the sheerness of it. The original sometimes looks really sheer and then sometimes doesn't look sheer at all. I guess it would be up to the Leia LCJ...I'd hate for you to spend so much time on the embroidery if it wasn't going to be right. Shocked

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Aysel () · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 9:31 pm Post subject:

padawan_rachael (Rachael James) · Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 11:48 pm Post subject:

that's one of my fav of leia's outfits! i wish you luck
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Aysel () · Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 11:55 pm Post subject:

Can I please get the opinion of the LCJ on this piece of material's sheerness. I'd really like to know if this is good or if I need to find something else.
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RebelPrincess (Katharyn Preston) · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 12:18 am Post subject:

Haha! I started on this one as well. Maybe we can work on them together sometime Very Happy

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Aysel () · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 12:23 am Post subject:

RebelPrincess (Katharyn Preston) · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 2:21 am Post subject:

Social sewing is a grand thing indeed. I'm almost done drawing the embroidery pattern. I will upload a pic when I'm done. If you like it your more than welcome to use it. Smile

Aysel () · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 3:17 am Post subject:

Miana (Rachel Williams) · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 7:02 am Post subject:

The standards call for an "Off-white cloak in a non-shiny fabric with a sheer non-shiny lining the same color as the tunic and pants and a copper metallic trim. The off-white fabric of the cloak is decorated in a stylized, paisley-like pattern - a “scales” design with rosettes of varying sizes at the waist and hem in shades of yellow, pink, burgundy, and brown. Padded yoke with standing collar and metallic copper trim."

The sheerness of it would be fine, since there's a lining of some kind, but I can't tell from the photos if it's a pure white or an off-white. Quite honestly, if you can't find something more off-white, I personally wouldn't dock you for it as long as everything else is right, though not sure how the other 2 Leia judges feel on that.
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